Zero + Maria Cornejo / Resort 2015

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If you follow Maria Cornejo on Instagram, then you know she was in Jamaica earlier this year. “I was really inspired by all of the colors and the clashing and the houses and the kids in school uniforms there,” she said at yesterday’s resort preview. “There wasn’t a lot of color in Fall/Winter, so we thought we’d make ourselves sick with it this season. Let’s just gorge ourselves on color. How mad can we be?” Quite, it seems. The collection has a pale blue to match the uniforms Cornejo mentioned above, a shocking orange sherbet, as glowy and hard to accurately capture with words as the best Caribbean sunset, a tropical lime-green, and a turquoise-ocean blue. With very Zero clothes that slip over heads and get us dressed in a single swoop, the collection is exactly what we want to wear on an island vacation.

But Cornejo, knowing too well that resort has to deliver much more than a great getaway (it hits stores in November and doesn’t go on sale until early summer), offers plenty for women to wear in the city, too. Black, of course, but also darker executions of the collection’s cool Jamaican-mask prints will be there before and after her customers take their holidays. Some of these more staple-y pieces have a new trick: A subtle “fin” attached to the front hemlines of shifts and dresses. “It’s not a ruffle,” Cornejo asserts. “It’s like a tiny little wave. It’s a little flirty.” Flirty? Maria? But, like the ease of unclingy clothes and the elegance of a gorgeous jacquard (as seen in this and all of her collections), it suits her beautifully, we’d say.